Timeline for Why do airlines seat people the way they do?
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| Sep 1, 2016 at 22:37 | comment | added | Niko | @Wossname You read that wrong: in the Mythbusters test, "random" was only the fastest without pre-assigned seats. I don't think many airlines are doing that... | |
| Sep 1, 2016 at 14:55 | vote | accept | El Bromista | ||
| Sep 1, 2016 at 9:01 | comment | added | yo' | Also, I don't believe that WilMA is favoured as it separates groups (it actually separates even couples). Imagine a 5yo boarding alone, or my aunt that has never flown lol. This just doesn't make sense as is. | |
| Sep 1, 2016 at 8:58 | comment | added | yo' | @Tom Even then, the APU consumes almost nothing in 1 minute... | |
| Sep 1, 2016 at 8:00 | comment | added | Federico Poloni | What is "random" exactly? (a) Letting everyone on together without dividing them in groups, or (b) dividing them in groups, but with each person assigned randomly to one of the groups? The article you link does not seem any clearer on this point. | |
| Sep 1, 2016 at 3:38 | comment | added | Tom Au | Airlines are good at "operations," and very poor at public relations, which accounts for a lot of their troubles. | |
| Sep 1, 2016 at 2:21 | comment | added | user13044 | @DavidLively - Planes are not running their engines while parked and boarding, so gas consumption is not an issue, except maybe at some remote airport without gateside power or air conditioning where they might keep the APU fired up. | |
| Aug 31, 2016 at 23:53 | comment | added | 3Dave | @Wossname not to parrot my earlier comment, but: 1 min * 1000 flights/day * x gallons/minute == $$$$$ | |
| Aug 31, 2016 at 22:55 | comment | added | Wossname | Mythbusters also studied this, and they came to the same conclusion - that random was fastest BUT also learned that passengers hated it. It only saved a minute over the next fastest method which passengers loved: flightclub.jalopnik.com/… | |
| Aug 31, 2016 at 19:48 | history | answered | DTRT | CC BY-SA 3.0 |